Alabama Gardening Information

INSECTS

Beneficial Insects in the Garden

Beneficial Insects in the Garden 2

Plants That Attract Beneficial Insects

Colorado Potato Beetle

Butterflies and Native Plants

Common Butterflies of North America

Henry's Elfin

All About Butterflies-Enchanted Learning

Butterflies and Their Larval Food Plants

Butterfly Host Plants and Caterpillar Pictures

Butterfly Gallery

Butterfly and moth caterpillars

Native Plant Hosts for Butterflies

Native Plant Hosts for Butterflies 2

Alabama Native Plants

Butterfly Nectar Plants

Search Park Seed Company for Nectar Plants (Type the plant you need in the search box.)

Moths
Moths of North America
Sphinx Moth Pictures (Stages of life)
Cecropia Moth
Cecropia Moth caterpillar
Polyphemus Moth
Luna Moth

Composting
How to compost

VEGETABLE GARDENING
Gardening-Just for Fun

Alabama Vegetables

Bill Finch's Plain Gardening Guide for Mobile - Excellent source for planting

Pick a vegetable and find out when to plant it.

How to plant sweet potatoes, vegetables, herbs, flowers (Bonnie Plant Website)

Plant Information (Alabama Virtual Library)

Park Seed Company ( Plant Pictures)

Dinosaur Gardens

Dinosaur Garden Plants

Dinosaurs and Plants (Enchanted Learning)

Dinosaur Fun at Scholastic.com

BIRDS
Common Backyard Birds of North America
Journey North - Migration Information

TREES AND SHRUBS
Trees and Shrubs In The Outdoor Learning Center
Chaste tree (Vitex) http://www.floridata.com/ref/V/vitex_a.cfm
Michelia tree http://www.floridata.com/ref/M/mich_fig.cfm
Wax myrtle http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/4h/Wax_myrtle/waxmyrtl.htm
Bigleaf magnolia http://www.treetrail.net/magnolia.html
Florida Sugar maple http://.britannica.com//topic/571983/sugar-maple
http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/trees/ACEBARA.pdf
River birch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betula_nigra
Sweet olive http://www.plantcare.com/encyclopedia/sweet-olive-1681.aspx
Lusterleaf holly http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/trees-new/ilex_latifolia.html
Dahoon holly http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/4h/Dahoon_holly/dahoholl.htm
Pond cypress http://www.arhomeandgarden.org/plantoftheweek/articles/pond_cypress_5-27-05.htm
Cryptomeria http://www.wilsonbroslandscape.com/TreeFileCryptomeriaYoshino.html
Bottlebrush buckeye http://www.briartech.com/summer/bbbuck/bbbuck.htm
Sweetbay magnolia http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/4h/Sweetbay_magnolia/sweemagn.htm
Yaupon http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/4h/Yaupon_holly/yaupholl.htm
Groundsel
Ginkgo http://scidiv.bellevuecollege.edu/rkr/Ginkgo/Ginkgo.html
Sago palm http://www.junglemusic.net/cycadadvice/cycads-sago-palm.htm

Additional Tree Resources
Listing of shade trees, street trees, ornamental trees, and trees used for screens